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A prize-winner at the 1934 Venice Film Festival, the film was financed by British Gaumont and Michael Balcon, whom Flaherty had been introduced to by the Daily Express film critic, Cedric Belfrage (who lauded Industrial Britain). That financing gave Flaherty, along with his wife and other collaborators, the luxury of an extended on-location opportunity for filming on the island of Inishmore, in the Aran Islands.
Local inhabitants were chosen to play the part of the family. The director followed them through their daily lives, along rugged hillside paths, on the beach, in their boats or at work on their nets. He filmed these moments, their struggles against the constant winds and storms, building upon a trend already begun in earlier films - that of observing the way men live, in search of those typical characteristics that derive from habitual behavior. More than in his other documentaries, what emerges from Flaherty's Man of Aran is, in fact, an average, normal world, there for spectators to observe from a certain distance. We see a group of fishermen and their struggle for survival; people do not come off as either positive or negative; and, more importantly, there is no hero. Chacters are typical of the environment in which they live, inserted naturally into each one's own context, and live out their common expression under Flaherty's “realistically” intense eye.
“Nel 1929 subito dopo il crollo di Wall Street, il transatlantico che ci portava in Europa sembrava una succursale del Muro del Pianto. Poveri noi- diceva uno- dopo il fallimento, la miseria. Essere poveri non è nulla quando ci si è abituati, ma vedere in poche ora sfumare migliaia e migliaia di dollari! Non potrò mai adattarmi alla miseria! Fra questi lamenti si levò una voce d’uomo. Mi fate ridere con la vostra povertà. Che direste allora di un paese così povero che gli abitanti non posseggono nemmeno un pugno di terra? Un pugno di terra? Letteralmente, e quando lo riescono a trovare, lo raccolgono con ogni cura e vi gettano un seme.
L’accento dell’uomo rivelava l’irlandese. Ci disse poi il nome di quel luogo incredibile, le isole di Aran, al largo della baia di Galway. Due mesi dopo sbarcavo in uno di quegli isolotti e vidi con i miei occhi grattare dalle fessure delle rocce qualche pugno di humus. Quando tornai, vi rimasi due anni. Così è nato L’uomo di Aran, la storia di una famiglia qualunque che vive a dodici ore di viaggio (in battello) da Londra.”(Robert J. Flaherty)
Edizione 2001
Robert J. Flaherty
FICTION
United Kingdom , 1934, 76'
REGIA/DIRECTOR
Robert J. Flaherty
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Geographic Areas And People, Traditions, Fishing, Mobility
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